David
J. Vandenbergh Ph.D
Associate Professor, BBH
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Pennsylvania State University
230 Research East 101
Amy Gardner House
University Park, PA 16802 University
Park, PA 16802
Tel:
814/863-8430
Fax: 814/863-8429
Email:
djv4@psu.edu
Penn
State Affiliations:
The Department of BioBehavioral Health
(BBH), which accepts students with an interest in the overlap of biology,
psychology and health.
The Center for Developmental and Health
Genetics, which is a research unit with interests in complex trait
genetics.
The Neuroscience Institute
of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences,
which accepts students with an interest in neuroscience through its IBIOS Graduate Program
The Genetics Program, or more
specifically, The Intercollege Graduate Program in Genetics, for students
interested in genetics.
Directions from central campus:
My office is in 230 Research East (225 is the lab, and 101
Amy Gardner House is my mail address).
Take Pollock Road east past Thomas Building and past the
tennis courts.
When Pollock dead-ends, turn right on Bigler Rd.
Follow Bigler Rd STRAIGHT through the next stop sign at
Hastings Rd.
You will pass the Bennett child-care center on the right and
Academic Activities Building on the left.
Go into the parking lot on the left
in front of the Coal Utilization Lab (a big concrete tower).
Stay in front of the building and
pass the Academic Projects building.
When the parking lot turns into a
small turn-around, Research East will be in front of you. It has a glass atrium on its side.
Map of
Campus as a PDF file (Research East is Building 153)
EDUCATION:
B.S. Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1981
Ph.D.
Biochemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 1987
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2004 – Present Associate Professor, Department of Biobehavioral Health and Research Associate, Center for Development and Health Genetics, Member, Neuroscience Institute of the Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences. The Pennsylvania State University.
1998 - Assistant Professor, Department of Biobehavioral Health and Research Associate, Center for Development and Health Genetics, Member, Life Sciences Consortium, Neuroscience Option. The Pennsylvania State University.
1992
- 97 Senior Staff Fellow, Molecular Neurobiology Branch, Addiction Research
Center, National Institute on Drug Abuse.
1990
- 92 Staff Fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology Section, Dr. George
Uhl, Addiction Research Center, National Institute on Drug Abuse.
1987
- 90 Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Dr. David J. Anderson, California
Institute of Technology, examining the molecular basis of neuronal plasticity
using adrenal medullary chromaffin cells as a model system.
TEACHING INTERESTS:
BBH 410, Developmental and Health Genetics
BBH
503, Neuroscience Core
BBH 597C / IBIOS 598G, Molecular and Biobehavioral
Aspects of Drug Abuse
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFILIATIONS:
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Member
Society
for Neuroscience, Member, and Secretary of Baltimore Chapter, 1994
Society
for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Member
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
A. RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES
Vandenbergh,
D.J., Christina J. Bennett, Michael
D. Grant, Andrew A. Strasser, Richard O'Connor, George P. Vogler and Lynn T.
Kozlowski (2002) Smoking Status and the Human Dopamine Transporter Variable
Number of Tandem Repeats (VNTR) Polymorphism: Failure to Replicate and Finding
that Never-smokers May be Different.
Nicotine and Tobacco Research
4:333-340.
Kozlowski,
Lynn T., George P. Vogler, Vandenbergh, D.J., Andrew A. Strasser, Richard J. O’Connor, Berwood A.
Yost (2002) Using a Telephone Survey to Acquire Genetic and Behavioral Data
Related to Cigarette Smoking in “Made Anonymous” and “Registry” Samples. American Journal of Epidemiology 156:68-77.
Klein,
Laura C., Michele M. Stine, Donald W. Pfaff, and Vandenbergh, D.J. (2003) Maternal Nicotine Exposure Increases Nicotine
Preference in Periadolescent Male but not Female C57BL/6J Mice. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 5:117-124.
Kerin,
Tara K. George P. Vogler, David A. Blizard, Joseph T. Stout, Gerald E. McClearn
and Vandenbergh, DavidJ. (2003) Anogenital Distance Measured at Weaning is
Correlated with Measures of Blood Chemistry and Behaviors in 450 Day-Old Female
Mice. Physiology & Behavior 78:697-702.
Klein, Laura Cousino
Michele M. Stine, David J. Vandenbergh,
Courtney A. Whetzel and Helen M. Kamens (2004) Sex Differences in Voluntary
Oral Nicotine Consumption by Adolescent Mice: A Dose-Response Experiment. Pharmacology Biochemistry and
Behavior 78:13-25.
Blizard,
David A., David J. Vandenbergh,
Akilah L. Jefferson, Cynthia D. Chatlos, George P. Vogler, Gerald E. McClearn.
(2005) Effects of periadolescent ethanol exposure on alcohol preference in two BALB
substrains. Alcohol (In Press)
Vandenbergh,
David J., Glenn S. Gearhard, Jennifer
Foreman, David A. Blizard, Joseph T. Stout, George P. Vogler, Gerald E.
McClearn (2004) The Alkaline
Phosphatase Gene (Akp2) is a candidate for a QTL controling Alkaline
Phosphatase Activity in Serum. (in progress)
Vandenbergh,
David J., Jessica Mong, Laura Cousino
Klein, Michele M. Stine, Donald Pfaff, George P. Vogler, Francesca Callegari,
and Francesca Chiaromonte (2004) Sex Differences Dominate Patterning of Gene Expression
in Neonatal Mouse Brains Following Prenatal Exposure to Nicotine. (in Progress)
B. OLDER SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Vandenbergh, David J., Antonio M. Persico, and George R. Uhl, (1992) A Human Dopamine Transporter cDNA Predicts Reduced Glycosylation, Displays a Novel Repetitive Element and Provides Racially-Dimorphic Taq I RFLPs. Molecular Brain Research 15:161-166.
Vandenbergh,
David J., Antonio M. Persico, Anita L. Hawkins, Constance A. Griffin, Xiang Li,
Ethylin Wang Jabs, and George R. Uhl, (1992) Human Dopamine Transporter Gene
Maps to Chromosome 5p15.3 and Displays a VNTR. Genomics14:1104-1106.
Persico,
Antonio M., David J. Vandenbergh, Stevens S. Smith, and George R. Uhl, (1993) Dopamine
Transporter Gene Markers are not Associated with Polysubstance Abuse. Biological Psychiatry 34:265-267.
Lossie,
Amy C., David J. Vandenbergh, George R. Uhl, and Sally Camper, (1994) Localization
of the Dopamine Transporter Gene (DAT1) on Mouse Chromosome 13. Mammalian Genome 5:117-118.
Vandenbergh,
David J.*, Donovan, David M.*, Michael Perry, Geoffery S. Bird, George R. Uhl.
(1995) Human and Mouse Dopamine Transporter Genes: Conservation of
5'-flanking Sequence Elements and Gene Structures. Mol. Brain Res. 30:327-335. *Co-first authors.
C. BOOKS OR PARTS OF BOOKS.
Uhl, George R., David J. Vandenbergh, L.R. Rodriguez, L. Miner, and N. Takahashi, (1997) Dopaminergic Genes and Substance Abuse. Ed. by David S. Goldstein, Graeme Eisenhofer and Richard McCarty, Academic Press, San Diego, Adv. In Pharmacology 42:1024-1032.
Vandenbergh,
David J., (1998) Cloning of Neurotransmitter Transporter Genes: Beyond the
cDNA Coding Region. Methods in
Enzymology 296:498-514.
Vandenbergh,
David J., (2000) Genetic Techniques in Neuroimaging Studies. In M. Ernst and J. Rumsey (Eds.) The Foundation of
Functional Neuroimaging in Child Psychiatry. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pp. 315-327.
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